Current Concerns No 4, 2004 - Contents

• Gene-manipulated Seeds: Are We losing Our Food Security Too?
  By F. William Engdahl
• Torture - Under No Circumstances and For No Reason Justifiable
  By Dr. Heinz Loquai, Brigadier General ret., Meckenheim/Germany
• Guantanamo Bay - US Supreme Court rules: US- and Non-US-citizens can challenge their treatment in US courts
• War Watch #10
  By Joseph D. Douglass Jr
• The Concept and Reality of "Nation-Building"
  A Moral and Strategic Critique of a Recent Long-Range Study
  By Dr. Robert Hickson
• Israel/Palestine: Thank You, Your Honors
  By Gila Svirsky, Jerusalem
• Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
• Vermont's Radical Imperative
  By Thomas H. Naylor (Vermont, USA)
• Second Vermont Republic - The Green Mountain Independence Movement
• Wal-Mart: Metaphor for America
  By Thomas H. Naylor (Vermont, USA)
• Recent Rwandan Acts of Aggression in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  Chronology of Facts
  By Joseph M. Kyalangilwa, President of the Civil Society of the Province of South Kivu, President of the International Great Lakes Forum
• Belarus - The Nuclear Contamination Claims Its Victims
  By Dr. Elsbeth Malthes, Rohring
• EU Election
  By Nick Seaton
• Book recommendation: The Dark Child - The Autobiography of an African Boy by Camara Laye (1953)
• Empathy Activates Emotional Pain-sensitive Regions of the Brain
• Falling standards in UK schools